WASHINGTON (CNN) - CNN has learned the already-dire situation for Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign has actually gotten even worse, with two sources close to the candidate saying the campaign only has a paltry $250,000 left.

The sources tell CNN that next week the McCain campaign will reveal it has about $1.75 million in unpaid debts, wiping out the $2 million in cash-on-hand the campaign currently has in the bank.

It was not immediately clear whether the campaign debt must be repaid immediately or whether the debt can be paid back over time, including after the presidential campaign ends.

Even though McCain has raised just over $11 million overall in the last three months, his campaign has spent large sums of money, one of the primary reasons for the departure earlier this week of his top two strategists, Terry Nelson and John Weaver.

A McCain spokesman had no comment on the latest financial troubles, which will spark a new round of speculation about the candidate's viability. Campaign officials are expected to release details about campaign’s financial situation early next week.

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Oh goody! You won't pull for a Vietnam War veteran and a popular Senator, but you will support a silver-sppon fed, billionaire flip-flopping 'Ken-Doll' parody of a Governor! Great! Isn't that what we got with George W.? Another informed American voter...no wonder our country is in the toilet!

If you can't even manage 11 mil for your own campaign, why should we believe that you can manage the US budget? You sank yourself, Bubba, with your stupid support of illegal immigration amnesty and Bush's adventuristic war.

Colin Powel’s sterling career was permanently stained by his loyalty to Bush. Many others also.

And now McCain. The Strait-Talk Express has been permanently derailed. McCain’s reputation for candor and integrity has always been over-rated, but now he has become a joke.

His fall began when he turned down John Kerry’s suggestion that he might consider being Kerry’s running mate. Then, after a mysterious weekend at Crawford, Texas, McCain sold his soul to the devil and began campaigning nationally for Bush.

Here’s what Josh Marshal said this morning, “McCain is a good example of the fact that life can take almost everything away from you, and usually does. But your dignity you've got to give away. And he did.”

You all are are doing exactly what the media want you to do: give up on this guy. I'm not a McCain supporter, but give the guy a break! Primaries are still several months away, but because all of these fools (politicians) have been campaigning since the last election, there's a false sense of urgency. The primaries are not tomorrow.

CNN, get off McCain's back. You already pushed "second tier" candidates off the cameras in the debates, and you gave only the 3 "leading" Democratic candidates a chance to talk about "faith" in your recent special. "Second tier" candidates don't stand a chance because they can't get the exposure that the CNN darlings get...unless, of course, their campaigns were to have problems the level of McCain's...

I guess we can also thank the Democrats for handing the debate monopoly over to CNN since they whined and cried enough about Fox News.

Looking forward to Mccain's recovery in the coming months. An honorable man like Mr. Mccain is just what we need in this country. I just gave to the campaign. Hope it helps. Keep going John. Stick it in the nay sayers you know where

My favorite GOP talking point is to make sure to blame the Iraqi government for failing to make progress in stabilizing Iraq.

Yeah, let's not place the blame where it should lie: George W. Bush and his neoconservative handlers, for taking the lid off this Pandora's box. Let's blame Iraq's government for doing such a poor job of trying to put the lid back on.

The fact is that President Cheney knew what would happen in Iraq and led Mr. Bush and the country into this awful mess anyway. So how does one not get impeached for putting profits ahead of your country's interests?

"How many casualties should the United States accept in that effort to try to create clarity and stability in a situation that is inherently unstable?" –Dick Cheney

It's about time. I only wish their are enough funds left in the campaign to fuel the "Straight Talk Express" and drop McCain off at the retirement home in Arizona. If he isnt smart enough to distance himself from the nitwit in office, he surely isnt smart enough to be our president.

What he has done, is get in bed with the devil. He's made some back-agreement, he backed Bush's war to get something after he drops out of the race. I wonder what he traded our troops lives and innocent Iraqi lives for? Brunch and karaoke with the President?

If McCain can't properly run a campaign, how can we expect him to run this country?

July 13, 2007 05:18 pm at 5:18 pm |

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When we change substance for glitter and we forget the teachings of history our children will lament.
Irak today is Spain post world war II they are preparing and practicing.
John McCain will go nowhere.
yet as unpopular as he might be his mesage is correct.
They will follow the troops home!
Because they are stronger today than ever.